Mixed media and Installation artist
Novel Landscapes
Group exhibition curated by
Anna Masters
Bringing together the works of Giuseppe D'Innella, Jayson Lilley and Anna Masters, Novel Landscapes invites you on a journey to uncover new ways to perceive, navigate and engage with our local landscapes.
Drawing on their own unique histories and influences, the three artists respond to the landscape through abstraction, innovative printmaking techniques and large-scale organic installations. The resulting exhibition celebrates our built, natural and cultivated landscapes in ways that highlight not only the variety of landscapes that we interact with, but also demonstrates how the same landscapes are interpreted through vastly different lenses.
In this exhibition, Anna presents a new installation and curatorial art work, alongside her distinctive mixed media and sculptural works. With a particular focus on our wild spaces, she interrogates how the natural environment might become a place of nurture and safety.
20 November - 01 December 2024, 11am - 6pm
gallery@oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, Barge House Street, London SE1 9PH
Curation
Anna has taken a unique and innovative curatorial approach to this exhibition. Rather than providing a single curatorial statement for the exhibition, she has collated three – one from the perspective of each of the exhibiting artists. Introduced to their 'guide' through a playful description of their modes of exploring places, audiences are lead through the exhibition with the distinct perspectives, focusses and influences of their guide. Visitors are invited to experience the ‘landscape’ of the exhibition from different perspectives, imbuing the artworks and their surroundings in shifting narratives. The dialogues created between audience and works shows the landscape to be less concrete and fixed than they may have at first seemed. Rather, it seems relational and personal.
Installation
Taking its name from the exhibition, Anna has created a new installation which investigates the ways in which we seek and find shelter within both the built and natural landscape. Created on the frames of umbrellas, Novel Landscape creates temporary, portable structures that can create individual shelters and hide-aways for people to occupy.
